Re: [PATCH, Fortran, pr78672, ctp1, v1] Gfortran test suite failures with a sanitized compiler

[Thomas Koenig <tkoenig at netcologne dot de>]

Hi Andre,

I can only speak for myself, but in this case I think your argument

> Programming is about constant learning. So you are arguing, that things should
> not improve? So that you don't have to learn something new?

does not hold for adding C++ features to gfortran which have no clear
benefit.


There are cases when adding some C++ stuff it is easy to read and
understand for a C programmer.  For example, it is fairly easy to guess
what std::swap means, and optional arguments to functions are a concept
that can be quite powerful.  I have done so myself on occasion.

I have chosen not to learn much C++, and use C and Fortran instead.  If
people start adding too much C++ stuff to gfortran, then I will no
longer be qualified to review patches and to maintain the relevant code
parts.

Regards

	Thomas